Cogitations I

Always
Good will yet dare.

Leader?
If the masses are predisposed to go a certain direction, the one who takes them there is not a leader but a figurehead.

Mob rule
When the majority rules, you get what they deserve.

Good
Love, by faith, will always choose the uncertainties of goodness, over hopeful certainties promised by evil.

Courage
Courage is choosing to fear only the most undesirable consequence. Cowardice is to run from them all.

Nothing
If you have nothing, don’t waste any of it and always use it wisely.

Motive
Where achievement alone is the driving force, purpose is distorted.

The problem
When it is everybody else, it probably is you.

True Love
Many want, fewer love, beware the difference.

Big fish
Despise not the small fish if it is all you can catch, it may be the bait that catches the big one.

Mercy
When mercy first appears you might not like it.

Hope
When you have no hope, hope for hope.

Sin
He who sins harms all, no less himself.

Always
Righteousness is always the victor regardless of the outcome.

Seeing
You are the only person that sees from behind your eyes.

The race
Life is a marathon, but when you see the ribbon sprint full speed.

Alone
There is none lonelier than the lonely that is not alone.

Give up
It is an act of goodness to surrender when you do not have to but should.

Antidote?
Humanity often sees the cure for the world’s illness to be another.

Value
The only true measure of a person’s worth is goodness.

Rebels
Worse than a rebel without a cause is a true cause without a rebel.

Uptight
A contentious person starts an argument even when they agree.

Paradox
Even conservatives are trapped inside of a liberal’s body.

Why wait?
If we are the only ones we have been waiting for, it’s over.

Trains
Because some people know they are on the right track they take it for granted they are on the right train.

Standard bears
The standard bearers of destruction march under ensigns of salvation.

Means and ends
A means must be justified in and of itself. The end is no more than a witness for it or the accuser of it.

Truth and goodness
Relentlessly pursue goodness and truth will appear.

Inevitable
Everyone eventually loses to God; surrender now and avoid the rush.

Revealed
The deepest understandings are not merely the result of figuring things out, but rather, they come as a gift.

Scientific paradox
There is a tendency within the scientific community to deny absolutes, yet, when confronted by faith that same community will take an absolute position against it. If it be otherwise, what right do they then have to argue?

Time is
Time does not exist in the past; it is gone. Nor does it exist in the future; it has not arrived. Time is.

Self vs. self
Because you relate to yourself, you are most easily convinced and overcome by yourself. On the other hand, by knowing yourself, you can resist and overcome yourself.

Mental paralysis
A captive of thought losses freedom to think.

Road work
Anger is the bulldozer that paves the road to tyranny, a despot merely pours in the fuel of hatred and steers it.

Brave new world
When efficiency becomes the end for management of a population, those who have no place will face the elimination of their being.

Answers?
When science answers a question it begs a thousand more.

Deceiver
The most deceitful liars in the world are emotions. On the other hand, sometimes they know much more than you do.

Greatest victory
He who defeats himself defeats all.

True love
True love is by far a doer more than a feeler.

Cause and affection
Why are those who starve their people looked upon with benevolence when they throw a few crumbs to some of them?

Absolutes and time
All things are absolute; those which are not will be once they are outside of time.

Truth?
When you shouldn’t tell your truth, tell someone else’s.

Worst wrong
The worst wrongs are the ones that are absolutely brilliantly wrong.

Cause of causes
Often the cause of a cause is to simply have a cause.

Consider all things
Don’t blame the straw if it was the camel’s bad back.

Quit while your behind
A fool’s words are a deficit, the more he speaks the bigger fool he is.

Wisdom of nothing
The silence of the wise is wiser than the words of a fool, but a fool‘s wisdom is silence.

Absolute power
If only one serves all, that one will serve itself.

Strength of evil
The greatest evil of self-righteousness is its devotion to itself.

Virtue of evil
Among those things that perpetuate evil is compassion where it ought not be.

Trust and love
Trust but yourself, you will love but yourself.

Relativity
I hold a theory that The Theory of Relativity is merely relative.

Seeds of trepidation
Those who sow apathy harvest angst.

Cause and crises
When a crisis can promote a cause, it will become a cause.

Reasonable faith
There is no conflict between sound faith and sound reason.

Time
Time is only for a time.

Repeating the past
History does repeat, however, not without some choice as to what part of it.

Impulses
Primitivism is the face of natural impulses; sophisticated but faulty reasoning is a mask.

Welfare
There is more charity in planting seeds of inspiration than in feeding the poor with another man’s crops.

No more
Time was created for the purpose that evil could have an end.

Spin
Always remember that gourmet is, in some instances, an eloquent word for putrid.

Right way
Even on the right road there are wrong exits, when one is taken curse not the road.

On time
So what if the trains run on time, where are they taking everyone?

Back to earth
A narcissistic delusion of self grandeur may give occasion for one to rise above others, but his rise is like unto one who jumps into the air rather than one who climbs.

Most dangerous foe
Among your greatest enemies are things you love.

Simple Truth
Profoundness is not complicated, but rather, a revelation of simplicity.

Own worst enemy
A man who rejects the truth will destroy himself with his own logic.

Eugenics
Let those who would “perfect” society by eradicating the “worthless defectives” begin with the most faulty–themselves.

The end of life
When life becomes an absolute science it ceases being life.

Intellectual barbarians
In many instances, the biggest difference between the intellectual and the savage is a sophisticated defense of actions, though it be no less absurd.

Know what you know
A man who knows too much tends to think he knows more. But wisdom discards more than it keeps.

Peace
Peace is a product of victories and defeats, especially within.

Tool of a fool
Intellect is of no use to a fool other than to make sophisticated his foolishness.

Human-machines
When everything must make sense, it is a sad state of affairs.

Self infliction
No one subjects humanity to more suffering than politicians do – No one. But, if that in and of itself is not ironic, the fact that they are supported by their victims is.

Equality
True equality is not always equal; it is always consistent.

I for one, do not wish for universal equality; it would mean we are all dead.

Follow your heart?
Impulses appear authentic because they are natural. Virtues, on the other hand, often oppose nature and therefore may seem artificial. But why are aspirations of virtue deemed less authentic than natural impulses simply because one is already possessed emotionally, while the other is an awareness of conscience to which to attain? Are the things no one would pay for of more value than those that have a price? If natural impulses are temporal and principles eternal, which is truly more real?

All it takes
A leader who can offer promises and provide provisions will have followers; truth is irrelevant.